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My 1st book after 4 months...
Took a very long time to start this book. I shelved it in 2021. Only started it yesterday and finished it in 2 days. It was really that good.

Finally finished this #AlmostAChunkster for #FoodAndLit #Cuba

It wasn‘t what I expected. It felt like a cross between a Jane Austen novel, Moll Flanders, and Gone with the Wind?

Set in nineteenth century Cuba, young Mulatto Cecilia (of unknown parentage, though we know straight away really) falls in love with a rich white man Leonardo. It is regularly remarked upon that she looks like his sister Adela. This is not a coincidence… 👇🏻

Finally starting Cecilia Valdes for #FoodAndLit #Cuba

I am looking forward to this novel, but also feeling a little overwhelmed! It‘s under 500 pages, but the writing is tiny!
It may end up over-running April 😂

#AwesomeApril #AlmostAChunkster

A Book That #BeginsWith #Lost - Day 2. These are two of the novels I hope to feature for #DecolonizeBookshelves2022 - our new reading theme at GatheringBooks.

Una historia dolorosa de una niña que crece y llega a la adultez durante el régimen comunista de los 70 a los ochenta. Vemos el dolor de no solo las carencias materiales sino también los resultados emocionales y psíquicos producidos por el régimen. Tiene partes que son francamente líricos y pienso yo tienen la influencia de Dulce María Loynaz.
Lo recomiendo!

“Language, the desire to give life to things through words, is what makes us human.”

Remembering Severo Sarduy on his birthday.

#til to educate and entertain their workers, Cuba has “Los Lectores: The lectores are workers in cigar factories who read aloud to their co-workers as they hand-roll cigars.” Learned from the Strong Sense of Place podcast episode on Cuba. Listened to the Alaska episode also, and an episode of What Should I Read Next. It was a long day‘s drive, a good time to book 5 podcast and 5 #til points to kick off #Nfn2020, hosted by @rsteve388 and @Clwojick

"The house said "Boarding Home" on the outside, but I knew that it would be my tomb."
Today in notable first lines.